Twisted

     I’m not talking about your sister or your mother-in-law or even your life, but the lives of your favorite characters. Some of them have brilliantly twisted lives, and then some of them make no sense.

     Arrow has great twists. His beloved mom is just as bad as his hated dad, and his best friend is dating his ex, who doesn’t like him because he cheated on her with her sister who died, but might actually be alive, all because his best friend’s dad has anger issues and is also one of his arch archery enemies and one of Arrow’s mom’s colleagues of evil. Plus, on top of all that, he is dating one of the cops who is hunting his alter-ego along with his ex’s dad who is hunting him. Got all that? And you thought your life was tough because your mom calls every day and your ex is dating someone you don’t know.

     

      Nashville has lots of sleeping partner twists. This was interesting and er, twisted until I realized that apparently everyone sleeps with everyone at some point. So now it’s not a matter of who is sleeping with whom, but when who will sleep with whom. So I guess the big twist could be who was slept with first, I don’t know. They need to have another virgin on the show who calls them out about it again; now that was a show stopper. Like what? You mean people say no to Juliette Barnes? What? Good stuff.

     Grey’s Anatomy used to be twisted, but now I think they’re just tired. They still have some twists like Jackson owning the hospital along with the plane crash survivors and that’s an awesome twist, but a very predictable one. And at this point they can’t kill someone off or have someone cheat on someone for a twist because we’ve seen it too much. I think if they let some of the characters be truly happy for more than two episodes, it would be an awesome and rare twist. You never know what happiness could do to Seattle; it may even keep a plane or two in the sky!

     Then there’s The Vampire Diaries or as I like to call it, The Big Twist. You have five different supernatural creatures in one town plus at least like three to four different love triangles at any given moment. That is enough for like a thousand twists, and then you throw in a new crazy killer and Elena’s newest Salvatore choice about every four episodes. That show keeps you on your toes and a Kleenex in your hand. The only twist that I think could really throw them is if there was no murder or attempted murder at the next school dance. What? Peace and happiness in Mystic Falls? Couldn’t be!

    So if you want evil parents, deadly plane crashes, cheating spouses, or murderous vampires, then just keep watching tv and be thankful for your paranoid co-worker and five cats.